Thursday, November 09, 2006

Spreading Democracy Without War

It is not a crazy assertion that the gigantic difference between this campaign season and all others was not just the Iraq War, but the existence of the progressive blogosphere. The Internet acted as meeting place, news source, advertising medium and organizing metaphor for Democratic campaigns around the country and at a national level. So before you sign off the tubes today, take a moment to protect that tool for activists, opposition leaders and ordinary citizens all around the world.

They have also launched a 24-hour web campaign to educate people about countries that impose cyber-censorship and vote for the worst offender, as well as to send a voice message to Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, which was the first company to agree to censor its search engine in China and, according to RSF, has been collaborating for years with the Chinese police so they can arrest and sentence dissidents and independent reporters.